The Storm After

Chapter 7: You And I

The following day came around and Oliver woke up in his bed, his eyelids blinking intensely in a reaction towards the light. He moved his right arm towards his abdomen and felt around the area. His body twitched as soon as it touched but the pain was not as awful as it was last night. He began to gather his body up to get out of bed whilst grunting in the process, when he suddenly caught a scent coming from outside his bedroom. It was a mixture of an aromatic and pungent smell. He had decided it was no use in wondering what it was, so he decided to get up and take a shower. Once he had finished, he put on his normal attire and headed outside.

He entered the dining area and was welcomed by the sight of Kara, who had apparently been cooking some breakfast. She was holding a plate of waffles when she saw Oliver walk in.

"Uh... Kara? W-What's all this?" Oliver asked, he was overwhelmed by the amount of food that was in the room. He looked at Kara as she was pacing around the kitchen. She was dressed in her usual attire, a white-buttoned shirt with her business skirt. Her hair put together in the standard ponytail she usually put it in. After putting down the plates, she finally spoke up.

"Oh, hey! Good morning! I wanted to make you something for breakfast but you didn't have much in the fridge... so I had to go out and buy some ingredients, bring them back and... Here we are!" Kara said, her voice was chirpy and hasty.

"You went out?... Does Earth-38 money work here?... Anyway, this..." Oliver said, he was trying to process the ton of information Kara had just thrown at him. "This is a lot of food... "

"Umm.. yeah! Surprisingly our currency isn't that much different, our Earth's share a lot of similarities, so that was handy, hehe!" Kara said, she gave him a big grin. She turned to look at the plates of food that were on the table. "As for this... I made some for us but y'know... I have to eat...".

"Oh... right!" Oliver exclaimed, he understood what Kara had implied as her voice had gotten shy and she had slowly buried her head. He had glossed over the fact that Kara had to keep up a more demanding food intake than he did. He pulled his left arm to look at his wrist watch. It said it was 9:00, which meant that William had already gone off to school. Things were still in the air between him and William, but what happened last night with Kara had made Oliver unwind and more content to resolve things. He looked back up towards Kara who had gave him expecting eyes, it appears she was waiting for him. He felt guilty for making her wait."Well! You've gone through the trouble, shall we?" Kara nodded back with a smile.

Oliver sat down with Kara at the table and proceeded to eat the food Kara had cooked for them. As they were putting food in their mouths, they shared more stories from what they told each other last night. Oliver told her more of what happened on the island, how he met Slade, Shado and countless others, and how they helped shaped him as a person. Kara had gone on to talk about when she was younger and her time in Midvale. As each of them opened up, they started to slowly understand much better and they felt the gap between had gotten smaller. The two eventually finished the food with Kara contributing 80%. They sat there, looking down on the empty plates in front of them. Kara had forgotten that there would be a lot of empty dishes after all that food which would indicate a lot more dishes to clean. She looked towards Oliver who was looking back and he was just as surprised as she was. If they were going to clean it normally, it would take forever. She let out a sigh and then without warning, began to superspeed herself with all the dishes towards the sink and began to clean them. It was much faster in Oliver's perspective and she felt envy that he didn't have to wait so long as she did.

"Oh, thank you, Kara. You didn't have to though..." Oliver said, he was put in a tight situation. He did not mind having to clean them as well.

"It's fine. Would have taken far too long if we did it normally." Kara said. She washed off her hands and had begun to walk back to the table where Oliver was. "Besides we save some time, we should go be going to City Hall now, right?"